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The Disqus website commenting system is no longer free, (as in beer).
When it comes to managing comments on a website, the free options include WordPress (and other native comment systems), Facebook comments, and [until recently] Livefyre (now owned by Adobe).
You also used to be able to use Disqus for free, but that changed this past week when the company started telling websites that use Disqus that they had to either sign up for the paid service or turn on the Disqus ads.
[...] Disqus offered clear benefits over the default WordPress comment system, including support for threaded comments, upvotes, spam detection (which clearly doesn't always work), comment moderation tools.
At the time Disqus was also completely free for most publishers. Over the years Disqus has rolled out a few different monetization options. Larger publishers can pay for premium features, and all sites can opt-in to Disqus ads, which can appear above or in the middle of the comments sections.
Starting later this week, all publishers using Disqus will have to either enable ads or pay for a subscription.
I honestly don't know which would be worse: advertisements, or websites currently using Disqus switching to Facebook comments.
Also at Liliputing.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday January 27 2017, @07:10PM
> If symmetric internet ever becomes a "thing" , this would be possible.
So cute when they're in the naive phase...
Over the next two years, Chairman Pai will dutifully watch as your ISP gives you a 1GB/month cap for anything that is not provided by their own servers (or websites paying for the privilege). VPNs will cost you extra, with legal MITM to prevent you from downloading terrorist of copyrighted stuff. For the Children. Or the Billionaires' Children.
You will pay $200 bucks for internet access, and will be invited to check the non-existent competitor if you're not happy.